Showing 9 items matching "fiction - spain"
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Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial LibraryBook, Cassell, Peter and Galpin, Don Quixote, ????
... Fiction - Spain...Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library via Monbulk RSL, 48 Main Rd Monbulk yarra-valley-and-the-dandenong-ranges Fiction - Spain Spain - Social Life - Fiction The adventures of Don Quixote Ill, p.737.Eng Don Quixote Book Cassell, Peter and Galpin Cervantes ...The adventures of Don QuixoteIll, p.737.EngfictionThe adventures of Don Quixotefiction - spain, spain - social life - fiction -
Marysville & District Historical SocietyBook, Arthur Catherall, Vanished Whaler, 1953
... fiction Jim and his friend Nugget are air pilot and observer employed as scouts by a Norwegian whaling expedition. Sent out to find the Oslo, a whale-chaser which seems to be out of wireless touch with the parent ship, they find her all right, but deserted! Deserted in that desert of snow and ice the Antartic Circle. This is only the beginning of a great adventure, of plots and counter plots centered around a Spanish ...Jim and his friend Nugget are air pilot and observer employed as scouts by a Norwegian whaling expedition. Sent out to find the Oslo, a whale-chaser which seems to be out of wireless touch with the parent ship, they find her all right, but deserted! Deserted in that desert of snow and ice the Antartic Circle. This is only the beginning of a great adventure, of plots and counter plots centered around a Spanish treasure-ship locked for three centuries in the ice.No dust cover. Book is bound in blue with the title and author in black on the front cover and the spine.fictionJim and his friend Nugget are air pilot and observer employed as scouts by a Norwegian whaling expedition. Sent out to find the Oslo, a whale-chaser which seems to be out of wireless touch with the parent ship, they find her all right, but deserted! Deserted in that desert of snow and ice the Antartic Circle. This is only the beginning of a great adventure, of plots and counter plots centered around a Spanish treasure-ship locked for three centuries in the ice.whaling, whaling ship, adventure, arthur catherall, fiction -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library CollectionBook - Novel, Mannin, Ethel, Darkness my bride, 1938
... Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection 69 Sussex St Linton 3360 Fiction Ethel Mannin Intertwined story of the lives of two young men in the 1930s, set against the background of European politics and the Spanish Civil War. ...Intertwined story of the lives of two young men in the 1930s, set against the background of European politics and the Spanish Civil War.296 p. : black cover, section of original dust jacket pasted to front, with image of a woman with dark hair, in black robe. Title and author's name hand printed on spine.Intertwined story of the lives of two young men in the 1930s, set against the background of European politics and the Spanish Civil War.fiction, ethel mannin -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library CollectionBook - Novel, Savage, Juanita, Don Luis : a romance of Spain, 1926
... Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection 69 Sussex St Linton 3360 Fiction Romance Juanita Savage Stamp inside back cover: "This volume is supplied for sale in the Dominions only. / Geoffrey Bles, Suffolk Street SW1." 306p. ; dark blue cover with gold letters on front cover and spine Don Luis : a romance of Spain Book Novel Savage, Juanita Geoffrey Bles Butler & Tanner ...306p. ; dark blue cover with gold letters on front cover and spinefictionfiction, romance, juanita savage -
Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial LibraryBook, Dean and Son, Westward Ho, ????
... Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library via Monbulk RSL, 48 Main Rd Monbulk yarra-valley-and-the-dandenong-ranges England - Fiction Spanish armada Charles Kingsley's Westward Ho! ...Charles Kingsley's Westward Ho! is the novel after which the English seaside village was named. The story follows the adventures of Amyas Leigh, an obstinate young man who decides to go sailing. He settles for a certain period in the Caribbean islands searching for gold and succeeds in making a little fortune. He then decides to go back to England by the time of the Spanish Armada, a sixteenth-century Spanish fleet that intended to invade England and overthrow Queen Elizabeth I for rivalry over colonies in the Netherlands, the Atlantic and the Pacific. Much of the novel describes the struggles between the two world powers, picturing the continuous naval battles that they engaged in. Amayas becomes greatly concerned when the Spaniards abduct his brother Frank Leigh as well as an admired local beauty named Rose Salterne. Furthermore, Amyas's life turns into a sad tragedy when he is further struck by a thunderbolt that costs him his eyesight. Generally, Kingsley gives the story a religious touch by making the war between England and Spain equally appear like a war between Protestantism and Catholicism, particularly when he shows how English hostages are often burnt at the stake by the Catholic Inquisition.p.407.fictionCharles Kingsley's Westward Ho! is the novel after which the English seaside village was named. The story follows the adventures of Amyas Leigh, an obstinate young man who decides to go sailing. He settles for a certain period in the Caribbean islands searching for gold and succeeds in making a little fortune. He then decides to go back to England by the time of the Spanish Armada, a sixteenth-century Spanish fleet that intended to invade England and overthrow Queen Elizabeth I for rivalry over colonies in the Netherlands, the Atlantic and the Pacific. Much of the novel describes the struggles between the two world powers, picturing the continuous naval battles that they engaged in. Amayas becomes greatly concerned when the Spaniards abduct his brother Frank Leigh as well as an admired local beauty named Rose Salterne. Furthermore, Amyas's life turns into a sad tragedy when he is further struck by a thunderbolt that costs him his eyesight. Generally, Kingsley gives the story a religious touch by making the war between England and Spain equally appear like a war between Protestantism and Catholicism, particularly when he shows how English hostages are often burnt at the stake by the Catholic Inquisition. england - fiction, spanish armada -
Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial LibraryBook, Oxford University Press, The old road from Spain, 1932
... Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library via Monbulk RSL, 48 Main Rd Monbulk yarra-valley-and-the-dandenong-ranges England - Adventure fiction English fiction The landscape, social life, and rural traditions of Holme’s native Westmorland are vividly evoked in The Old Road from Spain, the story of two brothers. ...The landscape, social life, and rural traditions of Holme’s native Westmorland are vividly evoked in The Old Road from Spain, the story of two brothers. When the younger brother arrives home from Spain it disrupts the even tenor of life in their Westmorland home. Meanwhile, a wreck in Morecambe bay links the story back to the Spanish Armada.p.282.fictionThe landscape, social life, and rural traditions of Holme’s native Westmorland are vividly evoked in The Old Road from Spain, the story of two brothers. When the younger brother arrives home from Spain it disrupts the even tenor of life in their Westmorland home. Meanwhile, a wreck in Morecambe bay links the story back to the Spanish Armada.england - adventure fiction, english fiction -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library CollectionBook - Novel, Sharpe, Nan, Dance, little lady, 1959
... Fiction Romance Nan Sharpe Romance fiction, set in Spain and France, concerning two sisters who become involved with the same man. ...Romance fiction, set in Spain and France, concerning two sisters who become involved with the same man.188 p. : plain brown cover, title and author's name printed in black on spine. Original dust jacket removed, section of it pasted to front cover, depicts handsome young man with two young women gazing at him, one clearly admiring, the other more hesitant.fictionRomance fiction, set in Spain and France, concerning two sisters who become involved with the same man.fiction, romance, nan sharpe -
The Celtic ClubBook, Mario Vargas Llosa, The Dream of the Celt, 2012
... The Celtic Club Limerick Arms Hotel, 364 Clarendon St, South Melbourne VIC 3205 Roger Casement Biographical fiction - Spanish. A subtle and enlightening novel about a neglected human rights pioneer by the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. ...A subtle and enlightening novel about a neglected human rights pioneer by the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world' especially the native populations in the Belgian Congo and the Amazon' but when he dared to draw a parallel between the injustices he witnessed in African and American colonies and those committed by the British in Northern Ireland, he became involved in a cause that led to his imprisonment and execution. Ultimately, the scandals surrounding Casement's trial and eventual hanging tainted his image to such a degree that his pioneering human rights work wasn't fully reexamined until the 1960s. In The Dream of the Celt, Mario Vargas Llosa, who has long been regarded as one of Latin America's most vibrant, provocative, and necessary literary voices'a fact confirmed when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010'brings this complex character to life as no other writer can. A masterful work, sharply translated by Edith Grossman, The Dream of the Celt tackles a controversial man whose story has long been neglected, and, in so doing, pushes at the boundaries of the historical novel. "In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world--especially the native populations in the Belgian Congo and the Amazon--but when he dared to draw a parallel between the injustices he witnessed in African and American colonies and those committed by the British in Northern Ireland, he became involved in a cause that led to his imprisonment and execution. Ultimately, the scandals surrounding Casement's trial and eventual hanging tainted his image to such a degree that his pioneering human rights work wasn't fully reexamined until the 1960s.p.401.fictionA subtle and enlightening novel about a neglected human rights pioneer by the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world' especially the native populations in the Belgian Congo and the Amazon' but when he dared to draw a parallel between the injustices he witnessed in African and American colonies and those committed by the British in Northern Ireland, he became involved in a cause that led to his imprisonment and execution. Ultimately, the scandals surrounding Casement's trial and eventual hanging tainted his image to such a degree that his pioneering human rights work wasn't fully reexamined until the 1960s. In The Dream of the Celt, Mario Vargas Llosa, who has long been regarded as one of Latin America's most vibrant, provocative, and necessary literary voices'a fact confirmed when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010'brings this complex character to life as no other writer can. A masterful work, sharply translated by Edith Grossman, The Dream of the Celt tackles a controversial man whose story has long been neglected, and, in so doing, pushes at the boundaries of the historical novel. "In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world--especially the native populations in the Belgian Congo and the Amazon--but when he dared to draw a parallel between the injustices he witnessed in African and American colonies and those committed by the British in Northern Ireland, he became involved in a cause that led to his imprisonment and execution. Ultimately, the scandals surrounding Casement's trial and eventual hanging tainted his image to such a degree that his pioneering human rights work wasn't fully reexamined until the 1960s.roger casement, biographical fiction - spanish. -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library CollectionBook - Novels, Lytton, Lord [Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton] [=Baron Lytton, Lord Lytton], Leila, or the siege of Granada; Calderon, the courtier : a tale; The pilgrims of the Rhine, [n.d.] [works first published 1830s, this edition c.1879?]
... 'Leila' and 'Calderon' are historical fiction, set in Spain in the 15th and17th centuries. ...Three separate novellas published together. 'Leila' and 'Calderon' are historical fiction, set in Spain in the 15th and17th centuries. 'Pilgrims' is a set of loosely connected stories based in German folklore.Three works published in one volume. 'Leila', p. 1-121, with Preface; 'Calderon' p. 123-164; 'Pilgrims', page numbers recommence, xii p. (with Dedication, Advertisement to the First Edition, Preface, Table of Contents), then p. 1-172. Brown cover embossed with decorative pattern in black. Spine similarly embossed in gold and black.fictionThree separate novellas published together. 'Leila' and 'Calderon' are historical fiction, set in Spain in the 15th and17th centuries. 'Pilgrims' is a set of loosely connected stories based in German folklore.james dodds, original collection, lord lytton, historical fiction, english literature, folklore
